"From 8:04pm PDT to 9:10pm PDT, customers were not able to launch new EC2 instances, create EBS volumes, or attach volumes in any Availability Zone in the US-Ea

"From 8:04pm PDT to 9:10pm PDT, customers were not able to launch new EC2 instances, create EBS volumes, or attach volumes in any Availability Zone in the US-East-1 Region." "The control planes for EC2 and EBS were significantly impacted by the power failure” in a single AZ." neither of these things are reasons for the disruption, but side effects of. not much "why" happening in the article all together.